{
  "id": 9079989,
  "title": "Sex-stratified fixel-based analysis reveals reduced frontal fibre density in males with first-episode of psychosis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/sex-stratified-fixel-based-analysis-reveals-reduced-frontal-fibre",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751722v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Background: Schizophrenia has been conceptualised as a disorder of brain disconnectivity, with white matter abnormalities contributing to altered neural communication. However, fibre-specific white matter alterations in early illness and their potential sex-related differences remain insufficiently characterised. We applied fixel-based analysis to investigate sex-stratified white matter…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}